The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-30
THE SCHOOL-RO BELL.


When disconragements will creep In;
And tho school and the home and the world
seems rife,
With vexation and sorrow and sin.
The clouds seem 80 heavy the sun cannot
shine,
The schoolroom close prison CELL
And they secretly long for near future time.
When they need not hear the discordant
chime,
Nor ring tho schoolroom bell
There are pther days when their hearts arc
filed
With quiet and hopeful trust:
a nd whatsoever the Father has willed,
Seems wondrouslv loving and just.
And they patiently work with earnest will,
And power no words can tell,
AS while gently reproving their sad eyes ill.
And while tcnderly guiding their warm hearts
thrill.
AS they ring the schoolroom bell.
We do not know what the end will be.
As the years roll on and on,
But the time win come when we all shall see,
The work that we have done;
And II we may hear the Masters praise.
At the close Of ali,--it Is well,
Though we struggle through many dark. lone
some days.
And meet with trials in many ways.
AS We ring the scboolroom bell
1t Is mixim of law, that one charged
with crime Is always to be presumed
innocent until proven guilty. This
should be maxim with the teacher
who would govern well. There is no
more direct way Of making school.
vicious than b7 showing them that you,
think they arc 10. A good regulations
Is dear to s.'l, and even q bad boy will
be restrainedt trom wicked acts as long
as he thinks you give him credit for
good intentions. But ifhe finds he has
lost your good opinion. he feels he has
nothing more to lose by being as bad as
you suspect him to be. A teacher iswise
therefore, IL he tries to see something
good in vicious pupil. Ihaye known
a very depraved boy entirely reformed
In school by his teachers letting him
know that he had noticed some good
| traits In his character. He afterwards
told his teacher that he had been SO Of
ten suspected of being william that he
had almost come to the conclusion that
he would be one; but that, when he
found one man who could do him th0
justice to give him credit for q few good,
feelings-for he knew he had them
he Mt once determined to show that
man that his confidence had not been
misplaced; and that he would sooner
die than knowingly offend the only per-
son who had ever understood him. It
is wise sometimes not only to withhold
the expression OF suspicion. but TO give
some token of your confidence to tho
pupil who is troublesome. Intrust him
with some errand involving response
biIity. or assign him some duty by way
of assistance to yourself, and very likely
you will gain his good will ever aftxr.
This Is founded on the well known
principle in human nature acted upon
by DIR. Franklin, who. when he would
gain his enemy, asked him to do him
favor. ID. p. PAGE.
Pennsylvania has but recently passed
q law requiring each school district to
maintain not less than six months or
school per annum. How the shades Of
William Penn have endured shorter
terms for two centuries we do not know.
But one thing is certain, Pennsylvania
has awakened to the need OF doing
something TO keep from being run over.
Perhaps the news from Dakota, hardly